Amplifier’s Investors Advisory Committee is constituted by serial entrepreneurs, community leaders and angel investors who are investors in Amplifier. Members of the Committee are a resource for our management as well as our portfolio companies. They are also expected to represent the interests of Amplifier’s investors in certain circumstances. Members of the Committee may also provide limited consulting services to portfolio companies.
The members of the Investors Advisory Committee currently are:
Emilio Fernandez Emilio is Chairman of Pulse Medical Instruments, Inc., a medical technology company focused on developing screening instruments to detect neurological variations. Pulse Medical Instruments products are found in daily screening applications as well as beta site installations in the U.S. and abroad. Additionally, Emilio is a director of Pulse Capital LLC, an early stage investment company. Since its formation in 1997, Pulse Capital has made investments in various privately held technology companies. He was a co-founder of Pulse Electronics, Inc., a producer of railway electronic monitors and control systems. While at Pulse Electronics he oversaw its development through its acquisition in 1995 by Wabtec, Inc., one of the largest railway supply companies in the U.S. In addition to his board membership with Pulse Capital, Emilio is a director of Pulse Medical Instruments, Wabtec and Sophia Wireless, Inc., a start-up technology company developing millimeter wave products. An active inventor, Emilio has been awarded more than 20 patents from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in the fields of monitoring, control and communications. Among the foundation boards on which he has served, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the George Washington University, the Hispanic Business College Fund and the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland.
Dan Gonzalez Dan is Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Scheer Partners, Inc., a real estate manager and developer with a market focus on technology and life science businesses which, among other things, operates a number of technology incubators in Maryland under contract from local governmental entities. Dan has over 12 years of experience working with technology companies in the DC Metroplex in transactions valued at over $2.5 billion in the aggregate. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and Chairman of the NVTC Foundation, an organization focused on community development through technology. Dan currently serves as a member of the Virginia Joint Commission on Technology & Science (JCOTS) Nanotechnology Advisory Committee for the Commonwealth of Virginia and is a member of the board of directors of the Virginia Biotechnology Association. He has served as a member of the Governors Commission on Biotechnology for the Commonwealth of Virginia and was a founding board member of the Washington DC Technology Council.
Patrick Marr Pat is Executive Vice President of CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc., a national commercial real estate management company. He has over 20 years of commercial real estate experience, having worked on transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $2 billion. Pat specializes in providing strategic real estate and development advice to national corporations, associations and professional organizations. He has been an active angel investor in the DC Metroplex, and has provided seed capital to a variety of technology and non-technology businesses. He currently is a director of the Gold Leaf Group, LLC, a provider of landscaping and erosion services to property owners and industrial plant operators.
Edgar Rios Edgar is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of AmeriChoice Corporation, a business unit of UnitedHealth Group, Inc. AmeriChoice organizes health care benefits and services for beneficiaries of Medicaid and other government sponsored health care programs in more than a dozen regions of the U.S. From 1989 through its acquisition by UnitedHealth in 2002, he was a co-founder of the AmeriChoice Group, and was part of the management team that grew revenues to $675 million in 2001. Prior to co-founding the AmeriChoice Group, Edgar was a co-founder of a number of businesses that provided technology services and non-technology products to government purchasers. Over the years, he has also been an angel investor and has provided seed capital to various technology and non-technology start-ups. Edgar currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Meharry Medical School and as a director of the An-Bryce Foundation, a foundation focused on assisting economically challenged law school applicants, and the Los Padres Foundation, a foundation focused on the promotion of advanced educational opportunities for inner city students.
From time to time, we will appoint additional members to the Investors Advisory Committee with a bias towards the inclusion of serial entrepreneurs and experienced investors.